Pearls® Olives to Go!™ Launches 'Fun at Your Fingertips' Photo Contest

TRACY, Calif., Aug. 26, 2013 /PRNewswire-iReach/ -- Musco Family Olive Co., the leading branded supplier of table olives in America, invites you to enter the PearlsOlives to Go! 'Fun at Your Fingertips' photo contest on Facebook at PearlsOlives.

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PearlsOlives to Go! are new, single serving, ready-to-snack, liquid-free, easy-to-open cups filled with delicious California-grown large pitted black ripe olives. Each olive cup holds ten large olives – one for each finger!

To celebrate the launch of these tasty back-to-school snacks, Pearls Olives is running a fall "Fun at Your Fingertips" photo contest, where consumers are encouraged to show off their "olive fingers" and win great prizes, including a MacBook Air, two iPads, three $100 app gift cards, or a year's worth of Pearls Olives to Go!. The contest will run on the Pearls Facebook page and can be accessed from mobile devices via woobox.com through October 1, 2013.

Perfect for lunchboxes, gym bags, desk drawers, and afterschool snacking, Pearls Olives to Go! will be on grocers' olive shelves and in colorful standalone shippers in most major metro markets by the end of August. Each package contains four 1.2 ounce cups (similar to fruit snack cups but without the liquid mess.) Containing just 40 calories, the cups are ideally portion-controlled for kids and adults and are the same classic California olives consumers already know and love. These healthful, wholesome, portable snacks are gluten-free, dairy-free, trans fat-free, sugar-free, cholesterol-free, GMO-free, andvegan and retail for $2.99- $3.49/4-pack.

About Musco Family Olive Co.

Musco Family Olive Co., a third-generation privately held family business, is the leading branded retail supplier of table olives in America. The company's Pearls^® and Early California^® brands command over half of the total national branded market share of black ripe olives.Pearls andEarly California brand olives are available at supermarkets and grocers nationwide. A convenient storefinder is located at www.olives.com/finder .

Musco is a leader in environmental sustainability, with a unique closed-loop water recycling program, a waste program that diverts over 95% of the company's waste from landfill into beneficial reuse or institutional recycling, a patented forage system that actively removes salt from the soil, and an award-winning renewable energy wastewater system (RENEWS™) that makes Musco one of the cleanest burning biomass plants in California, if not the nation.

For more information, go to www.olives.com or join the Facebook community at www.facebook.com/PearlsOlives.Musco Family Olive Co., the leading branded supplier of table olives in America, invites you to enter the PearlsOlives to Go! 'Fun at Your Fingertips' photo contest on Facebook at PearlsOlives.

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